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GLAAD released a report on how AI fails LGBTQ people, detailing biases in AI systems and proposing a framework for safer, more inclusive AI. The report highlights the need for better representation and safety measures in…
A philosopher argues at the Hybrid Minds symposium that mind uploading is utterly implausible and will never achieve human immortality, challenging the philosophical assumptions behind using neural implants for longevity…
The Trump administration lifted export controls on Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Fable 5 AI models two weeks after imposing them, restoring global access with a warning that controls could be reimposed. Meanwhile, OpenAI's GP…
A new guide on agent protocol security for A2A and MCP systems emphasizes that identity, authorization, delegation limits, and audit trails are essential when agents cross trust boundaries. The guide distinguishes protoc…
A study by MIT Media Lab researchers found that participants who used AI assistance to detect fake news became 21% more accurate while using the tool, but their unassisted accuracy declined by 15.3% after the AI was remo…
Telecommunications operators are increasingly adopting private, on-premises AI agent infrastructure to process sensitive network and subscriber data while maintaining compliance with GDPR, ePrivacy Directive, and NIS2 re…
Simon Willison used Claude Fable to prepare a release of sqlite-utils, finding bugs and improving documentation, but the key insight was the ordinary scaffolding—transcripts, changelogs, cost accounting, and a second mod…
A new study published in PLOS One found that voters rated AI-generated political debate responses as more authentic and relevant than real answers from politicians. Researchers used GPT-4 Turbo to mimic 112 public figure…
A software developer switched from Claude's Opus 4.8 to GPT for work on the Nelson project after Opus began refusing to perform security-related bug verification tasks. The developer found that Opus, like Gemini, decline…
A researcher using large language models for scientific work proposes sharing dialogues on Hugging Face to help improve AI performance, citing examples of aggressive behavior, justification of slavery, and other failures…
Fault-tolerant agent pipelines using checkpointing, idempotent retries, exponential backoff with jitter, and the Saga pattern can reduce wasted API spend from $95/day to $5/day for a 20-step research agent with a 10% ste…
Four major hedge funds—Balyasny, Two Sigma, Man Group, and D.E. Shaw—have independently converged on a common AI agent architecture for capital markets, featuring containment layers, audit trails, human veto structures, …
Greg Kroah-Hartman released seven stable kernels on Saturday, including security fixes for two vulnerabilities. The updates address CVE-2026-53362, an IPv6 flaw introduced in kernel 6.0 that could allow container escape …
A security researcher discovered that YouTube Studio's AI assistant, Ask Studio, is vulnerable to prompt injection attacks via edited comments, allowing attackers to exfiltrate private video titles. Google declined to cl…
A security engineer warns that AI agents are often given excessive permissions, creating a critical security gap. The engineer proposes six rules to mitigate risks, including granting minimal commands, using dedicated sh…
Alibaba will ban employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code programming tool starting July 10, citing security risks. The ban follows Anthropic's efforts to prevent Chinese users from accessing its models, including an…
A security researcher developed mcpscan, a static scanner for MCP servers and Claude Code projects, after discovering tool poisoning attacks that hide malicious instructions in Unicode zero-width characters within tool d…
An engineer with a background in ADAS and autonomous vehicles argues that AI is not magic but a structured evidence-gathering system. Drawing parallels between building reliable LLM applications and teaching ADAS systems…
Former top Treasury adviser Dr Chris Wales warns that HMRC is planning to use artificial intelligence to track personal finances without consent, following Spain's lead. He claims the CONNECT AI system already holds bill…
A developer discovered that AI coding assistants like Cursor, Claude Code, and Copilot frequently generate password hashing code using weak algorithms such as MD5 or SHA-1, which are fast and lack salting. The root cause…